List of extinct animals of the Nordics
This is a list of extinct animals of the Nordics. The list consists of common name, Latin name, known geographical range, and approximate extinction date, with the "†" symbol indicating the species is considered extinct worldwide.
Agmatans
- †Volbortella tenuis
Annelids
- †Lepidocoleus
- †Plumulites
- †Sabellidites cambriensis
- †Spirorbis lewsisi
- †Turrilepas
Arthropods
Crustaceans
- †Anabarochilina
- †Coeloma
- †Crustacea indet
- †Nephropidae indet
Eurypterids
- †Dolichopterus gotlandicus
- †Erretopterus carinatus
- †Eurypterus serratus
- †Holmipterus suecicus
- †Truncatiramus serricaudatus
Insects
- Blotchy mustard pyralid moth, Evergestis frumentalis
- Cattle warble fly, Hypoderma lineatum
- Centaury plume moth, Stenoptilia zophodactyla
- †Danish bulldog ant, Ypresiomyrma rebekkae
- Dry-fungus beetle, Dacne rufifrons
- Emerald leaf beetle, Smaragdina salicina
- Eurasian white admiral, Limenitis camilla
- Everlasting tortrix moth, Eupoecilia cebrana
- Flax fruitborer, Cochylis epilinana
- Flowering rush weevil, Bagous nodulosus
- Gack owlet moth, Trichosea ludifica
- Green-white tuft moth, Nycteola svecica
- Gyllenhaal beetle, Gyrophaena nitidula
- Herbst beetle, Acritus minutus
- Koch leaf beetle, Psylliodes attenuata
- Large ranunculus, Polymixis flavicincta
- Mediterranean spider wasp, Entomobora crassitarsis
- Müller shield mayfly, Prosopistoma pennigerum
- Oak pinhole borer, Platypus cylindrus
- Orange upperwing, Jodia croceago
- Ox warble fly, Hypoderma bovis
- Pygmy sorrel moth, Enteucha acetosae
- Reddish buff, Acosmetia caliginosa
- Sand sack moth, Coleophora onobrychiella
- Scarce wormwood, Cucullia artemisiae
- Silver-banded ghost moth, Gazoryctra ganna
- Small yellow underwing, Panemeria tenebrata
- Smaller sack moth, Coleophora colutella
- Spotted stoneseed moth, Ethmia dodecea
- Stephens beetle, Philonthus rufipes
- Straw conch, Cochylimorpha straminea
- Sterling owlet moth, Lamprotes caureum
- Tapestry moth, Trichophaga tapetzella
- †Tipulidae indet
- Triple-spotted clay, Xestia ditrapezium
- Waterhouse beetle, Heterota plumbea
- White geometer moth, Lithostege farinata
- Yellow-spotted ant-like leaf beetle, Phytobaenus amabilis
Ostracods
- †Aechmina bovina
- †Bythocypris semicircularis
- †Beyrichia buchiana
- †Beyrichia jonesi
- †Beyrichia maccoyiana
- †Beyrichia nodulosa
- †Beyrichia spinigera
- †Beyrichia steusloffi
- †Colpos insignis
- †Cytherellina siliqua
- †Entomis migrans
- †Leperditia baltica
- †Leperditia grandis
- †Leperditia hisingeri
- †Leperditia phaseolus
- †Primitia mundula
- †Primitia valida
- †Thlipsurella v-scripta discreta
- †Thlipsura tetragona
Phyllocaridans
- †Ceratiocaris
- †Emmelezoe
Scorpions
- †Palaeophonus nuncius
Strabopids
- †Paleomerus hamiltoni
Trilobites
- †Acaste downingiae
- †Asaphus
- †Bumastus sulcatus
- †Calymene blumenbachi
- †Calymene laevis
- †Calymmene intermedia
- †Calymmene spectabilis
- †Cheirurus conformis
- †Dalmanites imbricatulus
- †Dalmanites obtusus
- †Deiphon cf. forbesi
- †Encrinurus laevis
- †Encrinurus punctatus
- †Holia
- †Homalonotus knighti
- †Leonaspis
- †Phacops musheni
- †Phacops stokesi
- †Proetus granulatus
- †Proetus verrucosus
- †Proetus signatus
- †Proetus conspersus
- †Pseudotupolichas ornatus
- †Scutellum irradians
- †Scutellum platyactin
- †Spaerexochus scabridus
- †Warburgella rugulosa
- †Warburgella stokesi
Brachiopods
- †Anastrophia deflexa
- †Atrypina angelini
- †Atrypa cordata
- †Atrypa imbricata
- †Atrypa lamellosa
- †Atrypa marginalis
- †Atrypa reticularis
- †Bilobites bilobus
- †Brachyprion walmstedti
- †Camarotoechia lewisi
- †Camarotoechia nucula
- †Camartoechia borealis
- †Camartoechia diodonta
- †Chonetes cingulatus
- †Chonetes gotlandicus
- †Chonetes striatellus
- †Cliftonia lindströmi
- †Conchidium conchidium
- †Conchidium tenuistriatum
- †Cyranoia
- †Cyrtia exporrecta
- †Cyrtia trapezoidalis
- †Dalmanella canaliculata
- †Dalmanella crassa
- †Dalmanella elegantula
- †Dalmanella visbyensis
- †Dayia navicula
- †Dictyonella capewelli
- †Dinorthis rustica
- †Dinobolus davidsoni
- †Glassia compressa
- †Gypidula galeata
- †Hesperorthis davidsoni
- †Isorthis lovéni
- †Leptaena filosa
- †Leptostrophia impressa
- †Leptaena laevigata
- †Leptaena lovéni
- †Leptaena rhomboidalis
- †Leptaenoidea silurica
- †Leptostrophia filosa
- †Liljevallia gotlancia
- †Lingula
- †Linoporella punctata
- †Magas
- †Meristina tumida
- †Mickwitzia
- †Mickwitzia monilifera
- †Mickwitzia pretiosa
- †Monomerella
- †Nucleospira pisum
- †Orbiculoidea rugata
- †Orthis basalis
- †Orthis bouchardi
- †Orthis davidsoni
- †Orthis punctata
- †Parmorthis basalis
- †Parmorthis elegantula
- †Parmorthis visbyensis
- †Pentamerus gotlandicus
- †Pentamerus linguiferus
- †Pentamerus sphaera
- †Pholidops implicata
- †Plectambonites transversalis
- †Platystrophia implicata
- †Platystrophia biforata
- †Plectambonites inconstans
- †Plectodonta duvali
- †Plectodonta transversalis
- †Ptychopleurella bouchardi
- †Retzia baylei
- †Rhipidium
- †Rhipodomella hybrida
- †Rhynchonella exigua
- †Rhynchotreta cuneata
- †Scenidium acutum
- †Schuchertella pecten
- †Spirifer marklini
- †Spirifer radiatus
- †Spirifer sinuosus
- †Spirifer crispus
- †Spirifer elevatus
- †Spirifer sulcatus
- †Spirifer striolatus
- †Spirifer interlineatus
- †Spirifer deltidialis
- †Spirifer globosus
- †Stricklandia lirata
- †Strispirifer
- †Stropheodonta semiglobosa
- †Strophomena orbignyi
- †Strophomena testudo
- †Strophonella euglypha
- †Strophonella funiculata
- †Strophonomena lovéni
- †Strophonomena rugata
- †Terebratula
- †Trimerella lindströmi
- †Waldheimia bicarinata
- †Whitfieldella didyma
- †Whitfieldella nitida
- †Wilsonia sphaeroidalis
- †Wilsonia wilsoni
Bryozoans
- †Ceramopora lindströmi
- †Coenites repens
- †Corynotrypa dissimilis
- †Crepipora lunariata
- †Fenestella mobergi
- †Fenestella reticulata
- †Helopora lindströmi
- †Mesotrypa suprasilurica
- †Phaenopora lindströmi
- †Ptilodictya lanceolata
- †Ptilodictya triangularis
Chordates
Amphibians
- European fire-bellied toad, Bombina bombina
- †Gerrothorax pulcherrimus
- †Plagiosternum granulosum
Birds
- Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica
- †Apodiformes indet
- †Baptornis
- Black stork, Ciconia nigra
- †Caprimulgiformes indet
- †Chascacocolius oscitans
- †Coraciiformes indet
- Crested lark, Galerida cristata
- †Eocypselus vincenti
- Eurasian hoopoe, Upupa epops
- European roller, Coracias garrulus
- †Galliformes indet
- †Great auk, Pinguinus impennis
- Great bustard, Otis tarda
- †Hesperornis rossicus
- Kentish plover, Charadrius alexandrinus
- †Lithornis
- Middle spotted woodpecker Dendrocoptes medius
- †Mopsitta tanta
- †Morsoravis sedilis
- †Musophagiformes indet
- †Pellornis mikkelseni
- †Primoscenidae indet
- †Psittaciformes indet
- †Rallidae indet
- †Scaniornis lundgreni
- †Strigiformes indet
Conodonts
- †Apsidognathus walmsleyi
- †Aulacognathus bullatus
- †Belodella
- †Camiodus
- †Dapsilodus
- †Decoriconus
- †Distomodus dubius
- †Distomodus kentuckyensis
- †Hadrognathus staurognathoides
- †Hindeodella confluens
- †Hindeodella excavata
- †Hindeodella gulletensis
- †Hindeodella polinclinata
- †Hindeodella sagitta rhenana
- †Hindeodella snajdri
- †Hindeodella steinhomensis
- †Hindeodella wimani
- †Johnognathus huddlei
- †Kockelella absidata
- †Kockelella ranuliformis
- †Kockelella variabilis
- †Kockelella walliseri
- †Ligonodina confluens
- †Ligonodina elegans
- †Lignodina excavata
- †Ligonodina silurica
- †Ozarkodina serrata
- †Panderodus equicostatus
- †Panderodus gracilis
- †Panderodus langkawiensis
- †Panderodus recurvatus
- †Panderodus unicostatus
- †Pedavis thorsteinssoni
- †Polygnathoides siluricus
- †Pseudooneotodus tricornis
- †Pseudooneotodus beckmanni
- †Pterospathodus amorphognathoides
- †Pterospathodus pennatus procerus
Fishes
- †Andreolepis hedei
- Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus
- †Carcharias indet
- †Cephalaspis
- Common skate, Dipturus batis
- †Cretoxyrhina
- †Hybodus
- †Hyllingea svanbergi
- †Ischyodus
- †Megalodon, Carcharocles megalodon
- †Lepidotes
- †Leptolepis nathorsti
- †Scanilepis dubia
Mammals
Bears
- Polar bear, Ursus maritimus
Bovids
- †Aurochs, Bos primigenius
- †Dwarf ox / dwarf cow, Bos longifrons
- European bison, Bison bonasus
- Saiga antelope, Saiga tatarica
Cats
- †Eurasian cave lion, Panthera spelaea
- European wildcat, Felis silvestris silvestris
- †Scimitartoothed cat, Homotherium
Deers
- Finnish forest reindeer, Rangifer tarandus fennicus
- †Irish elk, Megaloceros giganteus
- Norwegian fell reindeer, Rangifer tarandus tarandus
Dogs
- †Dalbo dog was a Swedish dog breed believed to have gone extinct by 1870 AD.
- Gray wolf, Canis lupus
- †Peat dog, Canis familiaris inostranzewi
Horses
- †Forest horse, Equus ferus germanicus
- †Tarpan, Equus ferus silvaticus
- Wild horse, Equus ferus
Kuehneotherians
- †Kuehneotherium praecursoris
Multituberculates
- †Multituberculata indet
Pantodonts
- †Titanoides
Pigs
- Wild boar, Sus scrofa
Primates
- †Gardarene man, Homo gardarensis
- †Neanderthal man, Homo neanderthalensis
Proboscideans
- †Gomphotherium
- †Woolly mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius
Rhinoceros
- †Woolly rhinoceros, Coelodonta antiquitatis
Rodents
- Black rat, Rattus rattus
Seals
- Harp seal, Pagophilus groenlandica
Whales
- Bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus
- Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus
- †Swedenborg whale, Balaena swedenborgii
Reptiles
Crocodilians
- †Aigialosuchus villandensis
- †Crocodilia indet
- †Thoracosaurus scanicus
Dinosaurs
- †Allosaurus
- †Ankylosauridae indet
- †Ceratopsidae indet
- †Dilophosaurus
- †Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis
- †Hypsilophodon
- †Iguanodon
- †Leptoceratops
- †Ornithopoda indet
- †Plateosaurus
- †Saichania chulsanensis
- †Theropoda indet
- †Theropoda indet
- †Theropoda indet
- †Titanosauridae indet
- †Tyrannosauridae indet
Ichthyosaurs
- †Cryopterygius kristiansenae
- †Ichthyosaurus
- †Palvennia hoybergeti
Mosasaurs
- †Clidastes propython
- †Dollosaurus
- †Eonatator sternbergi
- †Hainosaurus ivoensis
- †Halisaurus sternbergi
- †Liodon
- †Mosasaurus hoffmanni
- †Platecarpus
- †Plioplatecarpus
- †Prognathodon
- †Tylosaurus ivoensis
Plesiosaurs
- †Cimoliosaurus nazarowi
- †Colymbosaurus svalbardensis
- †Djupedalia engeri
- †Elasmosaurus gigas
- †Elasmosaurus helmersenii
- †Kimmerosaurus langhami
- †Plesiosaurus
- †Predator X, Pliosaurus funkei
- †Polycotylidae indet
- †Scanisaurus nazarowi
- †Spitrasaurus larseni
- †Spitrasaurus wensaasi
Pterosaurs
- †Pteranodon
Snakes
- †Palaeophis
Turtles
- †Eosphargis breineri
- European pond turtle, Emys orbicularis
- †Glarichelys
- †Osteopygis
- †Puppigerus
- †Tasbacka danica
- †Testudines indet
- †Trionychidae indet
Cnidarians
Conulariids
- †Conularia aspersa
- †Conularia laevis
Corals
- †Acervularia ananas singularis
- †Acervularia ananas tabulatum
- †Aeropoma pirsmaticum
- †Alveolites fougti
- †Angopora hisingeri
- †Aulacophyllum
- †Aulopora
- Broch coral, Muriceides kuekenthali
- †Calostylis denticulata
- †Cyathophyllum bisectum
- †Cystiphyllum siluriense
- †Cystiophyllum
- †Dinophyllum involutum
- †Diploëpora grayi
- †Favosites asper
- †Favosites forbesi
- †Favosites gothlandicus
- †Goniphyllum pyramidale
- †Halysites catenularis
- †Halysites catenulatus
- †Halysites escharoides
- †Heliolites interstinctus
- †Heliolites parvistella
- †Holophragma calceoloides
- †Ketophyllum
- †Kodonophyllum truncatum
- †Lindströmia dalmani
- †Lindströmia siluriensis
- †Lykophyllum tabulatum
- †Oculina becki
- †Omphyma
- †Pachypora lamellicornis
- †Palaeocyclus porpita
- †Phaulactis angusta
- †Pholidophyllum
- †Plasmopora calyculata
- †Plasmopora foroensis
- †Plasmopora scita
- †Polyorophe glabra
- †Propora tabulata
- †Protolyellia princeps
- †Ptychophyllum patellatum
- †Roemeria kunthiana
- †Spatangopsis costata
- †Stauria favosa
- †Striatopora calyculata
- †Striatopora halli
- †Syringopora
- †Thecia swindernana
- †Zaphrentis conulus
Echinoderms
- †Cidaris baltica
- †Diplodetus
- †Echinocorys
- †Echinosphaerites aurantium
- †Echinosphaerites grandis
- †Eucalyptocrinus granulatus
- †Micraster glyphus
- †Trisalenia
- †Tylocidaris
Starfishes
- †Palaeasterina antiqua
Hemichordates
Graptolites
- †Dictyonema
- †Gothograptus nassa
- †Monograptus bohemicus
- †Monograptus dubius
- †Monograptus flemingi
- †Monograptus nilssoni
- †Monograptus priodon
- †Monograptus spiralis
- †Monograptus varians
Hyolithelmintids
- †Torellella laevigata
Hyoliths
- †Hyolithes
- †Ladatheca cylindrica
Molluscs
Gastropods
- †Bellerophon globulus
- †Bellerophon sphaera
- †Chelodes gotlandicus
- †Craspedostoma elegantum
- †Cyclonema delicatulum
- †Cyclonema nodulosum
- †Euomphalopterus alatus
- †Horistoma
- †Hormotoma
- †Lophospira bicincta
- †Loxonema
- Marsh grass snail, Vallonia enniensis
- †Murchisonia attenuata
- †Murchisonia cingulata
- †Oriostoma
- †Oriostoma acutum
- †Oriostoma angulatum
- †Phanerotrema labrosa
- †Platyceras enorme
- †Platyceras disciforme
- †Pleurotomaria alata
- †Platyceras cornutum
- †Pleurotomaria limata
- †Poleumita discors
- †Poleumita globosa
- †Poleumita roemeri
- †Pycnomphalus
- †Pleurotomaria
- †Scaphella faxensis
- †Subulites attenuatus
- †Subulites ventricosus
- †Tremanotus dilatatus
- †Tremanotus longiudinalis
- †Trochonema
- †Trochus incisus
- †Trochus lundgreni
- †Tryblidium reticulatum
- †Tryblidium unguis
Bivalves
- †Acutostrea
- †Ambonychia
- †Aviculopecten reticulatus
- †Buchia
- †Cardiola interrupta
- †Conocardium
- †Cornellites sowerbyi
- †Cypricardinia crispula
- †Cypricardites sinuatus
- †Follmanella danbyi
- †Follmanella duplicata
- †Goniophora cf. cymbaeformis
- †Grammysia cingulata
- †Grammysia rotundata
- †Grammysia triangulata
- †Hyotissa
- †Ilionia prisca
- †Lucina hisingeri
- †Megalomus gotlandicus
- †Modiolopsis
- †Mytilarca
- †Nucula anglica
- †Posidonomya glabra
- †Pterinea demissa
- †Pteronitella retroflexa
- †Rastellum diluvianum
- †Rhombopteria mira
- †Salweyia
- †Schizodus
- †Tancrediopsis
Cephalopods
- †Actinocamax
- †Actionoceras
- †Anthoceras
- †Ascoceras bohemicum
- †Ascoceras decipiens
- †Ascoceras gradatum
- †Ascoceras manubrium
- †Belemnellocamax mammilatus
- †Belemnitella
- †Cameroceras
- †Cyrtoceras
- †Dawsonceras annulatum
- †Endoceras
- †Gomphoceras
- †Lituites
- †Michelinoceras
- †Nautilus hisingeri
- †Octomeroceras pugil
- †Octameroceras unguifer
- †Ophidioceras reticulatum
- †Orthoceras
- †Parapuzosia
- †Phragmoceras
- †Phragmoceras constatum
- †Phragmoceras convolutum
- †Phragmoceras eurystoma flexiblile
- †Phragmoceras muthei
- †Subulites
- †Tragoceras
- †Trochoceras costatum
- †Trocholites
- †Tubiferoceras
Poriferans
Stromatoporoids
- †Clathrodictyon striatellum
- †Labechia comferta
- †Spongiostroma holmi
- †Stromatopora discoidea
Retarians
Foraminiferans
- †Platysolenites antiquissimus
Tentaculites
- †Cornulites scalariformis
- †Cornulites serpularis
- †Conchicolites nicholsoni
- †Conchicolites tuberculiferus
- †Tentaculites annulatus
- †Tentaculites inaequalis
- †Tentaculites multiannulatus
- †Tentaculites wenlockianus
Problematica
- †Autodetus calyptratus
- †Harlaniella podolica
- †Intrites
- †Palaeopascichnus
- †Yelovichnus
Ichnofossils
- †Archaeonassa
- †Arenicolithes
- †Asterichnus
- †Belorhaphe
- †Bergaueria
- †Cochlichnus
- †Cosmorhaphe
- †Cruziana
- †Cruziana tenella
- †Curvolithus
- †Didymaulichnus
- †Dimorphichnus
- †Diplichnites
- †Diplocraterion
- †Glockerichnus
- †Gordia
- †Grallator giganteus
- †Grallator soltykovensis
- †Gyrolithes
- †Helicolithus
- †Helminthoidichnites
- †Mobergella
- †Monocraterion
- †Monomorphichnus
- †Multina
- †Paleodictyon
- †Palaeophycus
- †Phoebichnus
- †Phycodes
- †Planolites
- †Psammichnites
- †Plagiogmus
- †Rhizocorallium
- †Rusophycus dipar
- †Rusophycus avalonensis
- †Rusophycus
- †Skolithos
- †Skolithos
- †Squamodictyon
- †Syringomorpha
- †Taenidium
- †Teichichnus
- †Teichichnus
- †Thalassinoides
- †Torrowangea
- †Treptichnus pedum
- †Zoophycos